Everberg’spaintings of empty interiors and unpeopled landscapes enter into adialogue with one another, as motifs repeat and transform likerecollected memories. She views the works in this exhibition as part of acircular, non-linear narrative that can be entered at any point. Inthis respect, her paintings reference a fluid cinematic space. More thansimply illustrating specific scenes or frames, however, these paintingsuncover the persuasive power that images have to construct reality.

“Ultimately,the works point to how images are framed, archived, and recalled by theviewer. The hazy edges and blurry lines of Everberg’s paintings andworks on paper seem clearly focused on the mediation of images withinthe broader landscape of visual culture.”– Gloria H. Sutton, “Surface Effects: Mediating Image Culture in the Paintings of Kirsten Everberg”

Itis Everberg’s seductive surfaces that first capture our gaze. Using aunique combination of oil and enamel paint, her works hover betweenrepresentation and pure paint. There is always a tension here betweenthe convincing depiction of space, and the abstract skeins of color thatdance across the canvas. What appears to be an historic ballroom ordense jungle from far away, is reconfigured into glossy pools of paintclose-up. Everberg’s mastery of her medium is demonstrated by how deftlyshe walks this line. Narrative and image; truth and fiction; surfaceand what lies beneath – are all woven together in Everberg’s captivatingworks.

Kirsten Everberg lives and works in Los Angeles. She hashad recent solo exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum of Art, CA andthe Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ. She has been included inexhibitions at several international institutions including FRACChampagne-Ardenne, Reims, France; Le Consortium, Dijon, France;Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art,Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Musée desbeaux-arts, Nancy, France.